Ladislav Hejdánek

Ladislav Hejdánek
Born	(1927-05-10)10 May 1927 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	28 April 2020(2020-04-28) (aged 92) Prague, Czech Republic
Main interests	philosophy

Ladislav Hejdánek (10 May 1927 – 28 April 2020) was a Czech philosopher and a proponent of Charter 77. He was born in Prague and graduated from the Charles University in Prague.^[1] In 1952 he attained a degree in philosophy with his dissertation "Truth and its ontological premises". From 1956 to 1968 he worked at the Prague Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Then he took a position at the Institute for Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, but was expelled in 1971.

In 1985, Hejdánek established the journal Reflexe. Časopis pro filosofii a teologii.^{[citation needed]} In 1990, he was habilitated at the Charles University in Prague, and two years later became a professor at that university.^{[citation needed]} He later became chairman of the Unity of Philosophy and then Chairman of the Emanuel Rádl Foundation.^[2]

Hejdánek died on 28 April 2020 at the age of 92.^[3]

References

External links

• Ladislav Hejdánek: Curriculum vitae (in Czech)
• Slovník českých filosofů: Ladislav Hejdánek
• Professor, PhDr. Ladislav Hejdánek — a biographical article at the website "Memory of Nation" (in English)
• Books by Ladislav Hejdánek
• Digital archive